Lectures
Featuring the best and brightest from on-campus and across the region, CAPI hosts Lunch and Learn talks (formerly our "Brown Bag Lectures") throughout the academic year. For more than a decade CAPI has also hosted a variety of distinguished lecturers through the Dorothy and David Lam Lecture Series and more recently through the Albert Hung Chao Hong Lecture Series.
All of CAPI's lectures are free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!
Upcoming lectures
Feb 20 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pmUVic, Victoria BC
Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, in 1998 as an exchange student. His later study of West Papua's resistance to Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, London, and the offices of the oil giant BP, Kirksey saw the revolutionaries' knack for getting inside institutions of power and building coalitions with unlikely allies.
Feb 24 2012 - 2:30pm - 6:00pmUVic, Victoria BC
Join this commemorative event to discuss this difficult past and to honour elders from the Japanese Canadian community.For more information please see attached poster.
Feb 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pmVictoria BC
Brazil-based electronics artist and robotics researcher Zaven Paré and UVic Japanese theatre specialist Cody Poulton will discuss recent collaborations between playwright Oriza Hirata and roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro in theatrical productions using robots and androids. One of Japan's leading dramatists and directors, Hirata is advisor to the Japanese cabinet on cultural and international affairs and recipient of the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Mar 6 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:30pmUVic
Feng Xu recently published "Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market". In this book she explores unemployment as one of the most politically explosive issues in China which gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate in the West.
Mar 28 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pmUVic
This lecture looks at using traditional tools and new media technology in learning environments.
